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Hot lapping

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ChillTeenDad420
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so i tend to hot lap, meaning i don't wait at the top of each feature to hit it. if there is a group of people waiting, i guess i essentially just snake them to hit the feature. If someone is dropping, i'll follow them in so they can hit it and i'd hit it after them. I don't like to stop at each feature and wait in the fuckery that is a group of riders queuing to hit a rail and more often then not awkwardly drop at the same time as another person, causing further delays. stopping at each feature fucks up the flow of the park for me. (keep in mind I ski in WA where the parks are generally not super crowded - probably nothing like it is at breck/key on a weekend).

my question is, do you hot lap? or do you get pissed when someone hot laps and bypasses the lineup? am i being a douche?


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Big.Ole.Diesel
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nothin wrong with hot laps always super fun to do
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tacobellslayer
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douche
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*DUMBCAN*
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I ski indoors and the only queue is for the lift, and it's normally a huge queue. Also the features are normally crammed quite close to each other, so there are two ways to ski the park:

hot lap, and hit four/five features a lap before queueing for ten minutes for a slow lift back up; or hike a feature.

I normally hike a rail until it gets past 9 and the queues die, I progress so much faster if I concentrate on one feature than hitting it once every 15 minutes.
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galardogod
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No I wouldnt say you're being a duech but I would recommend you call your drop. Usually I hot lap when I am skiing alone
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vinnypaz
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i really dont get why people stop after every feature.... hot laps for dayzzz
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nine50seven
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my home mnt is terrible to hot lap bc of all the lil snowboard kids. every feature is blocked by a group of them. nothing against snowboarders but our park is literally all kids under 13 and they all snowboard. only like 10 skiers that ski park
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nine50seven
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my home mnt is terrible to hot lap bc of all the lil snowboard kids. every feature is blocked by a group of them. nothing against snowboarders but our park is literally all kids under 13 and they all snowboard. only like 10 skiers that ski park
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planb420
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Hot Lappin all day...hate those stupid fuckin groups of gawkers....half of them dont even hit the feature anyway, just wait on their buddies to hit and then they ride on. But they still stack up in front of the feature making you think they are cool enough to hit it....no one cares if you cant ride the park, only if your in their way so stop trying to look cool by association and just watch from the side

/end rant

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iH8pow
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nothing wrong with hot lapping rails. if the person in front you falls u can easily avoid it almost all the time a

jumps are where patience and etiquette is needed. if someone falls u usually can't see or dont know where they fell, and injuries are higher. if u follow someone's ass in to a jump and u dont know them, dick move. let friends fight amongst eachother. it's shitty when you're doing park on a super busy day and you're afraid to try anything new/something you're not 110% sure of yourself on in fear of falling and getting hit from some ass who follows u in
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Blurst
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Fuck people who stop before every feature, ruins the flow of the park. I try to not "snake" as much as I can but there is not a chance in hell that Im stopping 5 times in a single run because a bunch of kids are stopped waiting to tell each other how sick their last k fed was.
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Parks.
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i only hot lap when i ski alone.
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will_powder
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Stop before jumps, hot lap rails. Been living the snake lifestyle.
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skiierman
Posts: 28699 - Karma: -5,563
Hot laps have priority over everyone else because YOU ARE USING THE FLOW OF THE PARK. Before you drop in you should ALWAYS LOOK ABOVE YOU AND BE IN A POSITION WHERE YOU CAN SEE PEOPLE ABOVE YOU.


Hot laps are no different than anyone ripping down a trail. If you have a problem with people who actually want to ride the park of how it's designed, then you're a fucking idiot that needs to kill yourself before you hurt someone that actually knows what they're doing.

If your park is designed so that it cannot be ridden in one run then your park is shitty and you don't have to worry about people who hot lap.

Why the fuck is this a thread? Last time I checked this isn't some knuckle-dragger site... oh wait, I forgot that skiing is becoming popular which means there will be more jackass gapers in the park. Maybe this thread is necessary after all.
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Parks.
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your comments are fun to read. 10/10 would read again

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HentaiHero
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You have some stick up your ass today.
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skiierman
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BTW if you're terrible enough that you eat shit on a jump, you should have a FRIEND there to close off the jump in case you fall. If you're by yourself and you hit a jump or try a trick that you know you cannot land 100% then it's you're own fucking fault if someone lands on your stupid ass.

/end thread
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Jon_Taffer
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lol
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GayWolf420
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Its all about the flow of the park. I hate when filmers posted up on features get bent when a group of kids comes through hitting features. I get you're trying to get shots but I'm also following the flow of the park. Like you're supposed too.
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hippi3773
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I would say hot lapping is a lot of fun but at my home mountain it's not really doable. There's always new kids in the park everyday who fall 90% of the time on the features which doesn't annoy since I see they're trying but then you have to wait for them to get up and out of the way which can take a few minutes slowing you down
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ski0
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Rails are fair game, go nuts, I don't give a fuck. But if there is a big crowd waiting to drop into a jump line or the pipe then you are a huge douche and I hate you.
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Gameday
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If I'm skiing with my homes we hot lap but if I'm with snowboarders I have to go slow
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3mania
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When starting downhill or merging into a trail, look uphill and yield to others. rule #4 mothafuckers!! it's the same in the park as the rest of the hill.
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mski
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love it
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Dhane
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this. and so much this i cant tell you how many jackass skittle kids i have clobbered because they were shittin around a little down box in the middle of the park watching their equally retarded counterparts do endless k-feds. just ride the park ya idiots
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Jahoe_Stuyve
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I skied at Bachy last season and hot laps were the best way to hit that park. Everything was pretty spread out but still had so much flow. Hated when people stopped above features because most of the time it would chop the run in to the next feature and landing of the previous overall making it shitty. HOT LAPS OVER ERRTHANG..... unless you're at hood in the summer... then hot laps become hot hikes.
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Woodhouse
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I only ski hot laps if I call my drop and nobody is dropping while I'm skiing past. Having said that, if I see even the tiniest window between the Technine snowboard kids, I'm taking it.
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JayMobilia
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i skied last weekend and there would always be about 10 snowboarders waiting and they would never day. If you dont hot lap you'll be there all day
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CaptainObvious.
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Ok, here's a question: if you're "hot lapping" does that mean you're coming through the warning gates and not even stopping for everyone waiting to drop into the whole park line in general? I get that once you start, you just go the whole way through. That's the way it should happen. But if you come from the lift, through the gates, and give the finger to everyone waiting in line to drop into the first feature, that's pretty shitty.
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skiierman
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For being captain obvious, you're pretty bad at noticing the obvious.
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CaptainObvious.
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................touche.
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eheath
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If you're up hill, you have the right of way.
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CrotchKiller
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...... yea right
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Miomo
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That is literally the stupidest thing I have ever read.
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skiierman
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Sorry, bro but to all us normal folk who don't have x-ray vision, those kids are a fucking liability.
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galardogod
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I have to agree sir
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LC.
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Eh... isn't that what you're meant to do?
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RockNRollNghtClb
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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J-Dunn
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they both fun but when my friends are killin it i like to stop and watch everyone. Gets me amped to watch sometimes for sure
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Blynch2
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You were doing so good up to this post
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skiierman
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people liked it too much... it felt really weird.
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WU-sconsin
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you dumb as hell, then you shouldn't be hitting shit in the park if that's what you think. No one is ever 100% sure, there's always a chance your gonna not land
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joshua
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Well he is partially right. In parks where you don't have visibility of the landings, there is no way to tell if the landing is clear. That's why most legit parks have signage promoting the use of spotters. My local hill's jumps are tiny though so this isn't an issue, and when I to to Spirit Mountain in MI you can see the landings on all the jumps, so I just wait till I see buddy ski away from the first jump or two in the line before I drop.
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bigbromskier
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if you're confident in your ability--hot lap. Don't cut people off, but if there's a big lineup I'll jump in behind someone if there's enough gap and they look/i know they're good enough/confident enough to not fall. sometimes people aren't too stoked on this, but for the most part it's not a big deal, and everyone loves to see a nice train!
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skiierman
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Yeah I shouldn't be in the park because I believe kids shouldn't try shit that has a high probability of failure when they don't have someone there to mark it off when he falls... you know so that anyone else riding through the park doesn't land on his gaper ass. How'd you turn that into "you can be 100% sure every time that you hit a jump, will always land and if you don't, you're a moron that deserves to be landed on".

Park etiquette is dead and kids like you make the park way more dangerous than it needs to be. You fanboys are mind-blowingly stupid and ignorant to everything and everyone around you. Are you Mormon by chance?
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iH8pow
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so you're saying everybody who skis park should be bringing in a gaper friend who DOESN'T ski park so they can babysit the jumps? Because if your friends like park, nobody is going to want to fucking stand on each jump while their friends hit it--i sure as shit don't. Funny that you mention FRIENDS like you have any

we're not talking about gapers. They're easy to spot. They show hesitation and hit the jump too slow, you can see it coming so you know to use caution. What about people trying to cork, or what if you follow in too close somebody lands a bit off axis and veers to one direction, colliding with you because you followed too closely. Doesn't mean that they suck and don't belong in the park, shit happens and your at fault

you don't know park etiquette for shit, and it is dead clearly in your world. When are we gonna see new videos of you killing it so we can see who you are on the hill? and who to beat when we see your loser ass


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ski0
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Dude this is absolutely not cool. You can't just snake behind someone you dont know and expect them not to fall cause the "look confident" . Even the best skiers/riders bail, honestly maybe more because they are actually trying difficult tricks. I bailed on a 5 once and some kid on a snowboard landed on my ankles. NOT COOL BRO
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MickDuby
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Skiierman u literaly have no life if seen u dicking around in like 7 threads today all talking about the same shit
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Iraq_Lobster
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we only have like two jumps so i will stop before i hit the jump line but thats it
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